Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:47:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:59:21 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>On 11/10/2017, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:  
>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 03:40:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:    
>>>>It is a brute force kind of thing, and I lost all of my sessions
>>>>history, for the last however many years, about which, I am not very
>>>>happy.    
>>>
>>> Do you own a backup of your $HOME or at least of the Firefox
>>> default profile made before you refreshed Firefox?
>>>    
>>
>>I did not create a backup before I refreshed firefox, so, I assume
>>that I do not have either of the backups.  
>
>If you should have any backup of your home, you could copy the history
>$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite to the refreshed profile,
>see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite .

I never refreshed Firefox, perhaps there's a copy in
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/ or it kept the default profile and create a new
on.